A Look At Starlux Airlines’ Business Class Menu

@D4towards I fly them almost weekly... Their aircraft, especially those configured for regional flights are so incredibly uncomfortable, which is a widely agreed observation. The seats are very hard and padding very thin. The only decent plane is the renovated A330, which is just a small few out of their fleet CI planned, announced but suddenly stopped the renovation of A330. I am glad you seem to like CI. I recommend you try the likes of Korean Air, Delta, Cathay and even American Airlines and you will realize how much more comfortable their seats are. When there are other experience to reference, I think you would agree with my observations. Also, CI's new A350/B777 has rows and rows and rows of Family Couch economy seat but they are rarely sold as such, which means the flap is not deployed (not flipped out) and thus reducing lower leg room by 2-3 inches on those economy row, which were only 31 inches to start with. Sadly, those are the mid-cabin "preferred" seats given to frequent flyers. Also, CI makes way way too many announcements that prevent you to get any decent rest. Everything is announced in Mandarin, English, destination language, and Taiwanese. I speak several languages, so I usually get sick of hearing the announcement 3 or 4 times...on every announcement. On a short flight like HKGTPE, you have about 10 mins of quiet time... Even more silly, they keep playing Taiwanese custom/immigration videos when they land into a foreign country, which means they are providing completely irrelevant information to their passengers 50% of the times. CI is known to have prettier cabin crew over that of EVA, some of them are not nice and kind of rude - the more you fly the more you will notice this. By all means, CI is not bottom of the barrel, but it's definitely not exceptional. EVA is far superior than CI.

@will I flew CI on HKGTPE and LAXTPE several times on economy. It was ok, I didn’t feel their seats particularly uncomfortable. Service was nice and food was acceptable. The cabin crew was never rude.

@stratified US aid is the only reason you know what an airport even looks like. Or have the freedom to write that snivelingly ignorant post.

China Airlines is exceptional?! Is @lucky drunk or buzzed everything he flies China Airlines? Flight after flight, China Airlines is just barely OK at best. They are always late that they might as well change their slogan to "always late", such that the the "apologize for the delay" PA is so fluently practiced by the crew. Their planes are very very old except a few 777/350. On the older widebodies, the 330 and 4 747s, which is the backbone of CI, seats are incredibly cramped together. Giant AVOD boxes on every row, wipe out easily 1/3 of your foot space. Seatbacks are rock hard and they are some of the most uncomfortable seats in the sky. Just it happens, I flew on their 737 a week ago (as the only CI fleet type that I haven't flown) and it was incredibly uncomfortable... Even an American Airlines' retrofitted 737 is more comfortable. On the newer 777/350, they oddly decide to go opposite of most airlines by designing and keeping the cabin extremely dark with depressing lighting and color, like a flying dungeon. To make the matter worse, crews are training to close the window shades constantly... Try to fill out a custom/landing form, well ya can't , cause you can't see the form clearly. The newer 777/350 also sports the latest pro-airline slim seats, with terrible and atrocious back and lumbar support. I leave everyone of those flights with sore neck or back... China Airlines is exceptional,..., exceptionally terrible and painful, maybe...

@NRT - American aid and presence in Asia post-WW2 basically set a brainwashing tone in Asia that the West is always better and always more progressive. My parents' generation have all experienced fawning over canned peaches and things like that.. Uncle Sam and the West in general, all peddled that thing about superiority, as did the local authorities who want their money. So if you're from the West and you don't like this, the blame firmly rests on you guys and your elder statesmen/businessmen... :P I avoid both EVA and China Airlines (they both feel like amateurs) so I look forward to Starlux. How viable Starlux is doesn't matter. At worst it'll be absorbed into EVA which gives the guy a way back in. The hypothetical best scenario is he's the upper hand in a merger with EVA. Whichever way he wants to play this, he'll want to have an airline. Kudos to him.